If you have a cat you have to stop it scaring and eating birds

Cats are not the only bird killers you know
rats, magpies and woodpeckers to name a few others
a cat does what a cat does

Our cats are buggers for killing baby birds, although admittedly they don't do it often. They don't kill mice they just bring them indoors and set them free!
They won't keep a collar on. One even managed to escape and lose a lampshade collar from the vets

My cat told me to sod off.

Alright, I won't bother in future.

Are you for real or just too much time on your hands?
Are you vegetarian? Could you also ask foxes to stop eating my hens??

Do people not understand nature?

Good luck with that one lol!!!

I would be quite happy, as a cat owner, to pay a set amount of money for a service where people report this problem and people are sent out to clean up to no cost to those reporting it in their gardens etc.

One of the least sensible ideas I've ever read here!

Sometimes old cats are skilled hunters for rabbit.

Bird's revenge?!!!!

Mines too old and fat and lazy to bother. He used to have a collar with bells on, the stupid dog heard him coming and chased him. No bell, no chase, stick bell on, chase ensued.

Cats aren’t wild animals like naturally occurring predators, they are pets that humans choose to own and they have a negative impact on wildlife.

OP they don’t care, if they did they wouldn’t keep them decimating local wildlife and shitting in their neighbour’s gardens.

Its nature

Put orange peel down. They don't like the smell. They can poo in their own garden. Mine do.

Mine has a bell and is no longer in the first flush of youth. He's also the worst camouflage job ever so as soon as he emerges from the house, birds see him. He catches the odd mouse, but the pigeons are more than happy to feed on the ground while he watches them - they are simply too big for him!

I'm not unempathetic to the cat shit situation. We have noticed our cat does it to a particular neighbour's front garden and my husband will go clean it up.

As such, I would be quite happy, as a cat owner, to pay a set amount of money for a service where people report this problem and people are sent out to clean up to no cost to those reporting it in their gardens etc.

That said, I think the same should be done for dog shit as fines and warnings aren't working apparently.

I’ve explained your request to Chairman Meow OP. He’s mulling it over as he munches his supper…it’s given him paws for thought…

We are better off focusing on stopping the human behaviour and activity that leads to the deaths of so many birds. Cats have been hunting birds for thousands of years without making them endangered.

My dogs have been trained to protect the wildlife in this garden. No cats allowed.

😂

They haven't been trained to protect wildlife, they've been trained to chase small animals.

With the expansion of housing developers are removing garden and green spaces.
I grew up in a 40's home with a massive 90 foot garden with lots of trees and bushes.
Now new builds have 0 gardens or just a tiny patch of grass. The RSPB need to put pressure on the government to make sure developers add proper sized front and back gardens that are planted with a variety of trees and bushes/shrubs that as they mature provide housing and shelter for animals.
Our pine trees have given birds a nice protected home all year round. Although the Pigeons, crows and Magpies have been fighting over the space.

I hate it when my cats bring back dead birds. They seem to have largely stopped thankfully (most likely due to my screaming like a banshee when they turn up with one). The dead wet rat and equally wet cat really took it a new level of yuck one day.

My last cat did stop though when I told him he didn't need to bring me any gifts just bring himself home safe and we are happy. Unfortunately my younger cat is a hunter and loves it. Very little I can has stopped her. Bells get pulled of.

I have a Whippet who is an efficient hunter.
{NOT birds} but rodents that are regularly poisoned by people.

I bought Hawk bells to go on her, as if she catches rodents in public, people get all upset- but she moves so stealthily even the hawk bells don't jingle.

She can catch rodents wearing bright clothes as well.

Nope to a collar - my kitties love to climb trees and I'd rather not find them hanging from a branch, thanks. Have to admit, I don't love that they catch the odd bird but I'm quite happy that they catch rats and other critters - we live very rurally and would be overrun with rodents if it wasn't for our cats.

Same
My childhood dog used to catch frogs and put them in the mop bucket unharmed
She did the same with squirrels,birds and mice (the squirrels and birds would jump back out,which was fun trying to get them out again)
The cat did fuck all hunting
We did ask the dog to stop but she ignored us

Where on earth do you live that your garden is covered in pigeons if you don’t have a cat? I’m a cat free city home owner and my garden isn’t overrun with pigeons.

That's all anyone can ask. I think cat owners like you are very rare though.